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RESEARCH PRODUCT

A Reduced-Form Model for Warrant Valuation

Robert A. JarrowSiegfried Trautmann

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WarrantEconomics and EconometricsActuarial scienceComplete informationReduced formEconomicsFinanceStock priceValuation (finance)Credit risk

description

This paper studies warrant valuation using a reduced-form model. Analogous to the credit risk literature, structural models require complete information about the asset value process and the firm’s liabilities. In contrast, reduced-form models require only information about the firm’s stock price process. We introduce a reduced-form model where the warrant holder is a price taker, and we relate our model to structural models appearing in the literature.

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6288.2011.00306.x